The Summit is organized into three learning tracks, People, Money, and Place, with each track featuring two breakout sessions, combining insight and action. Sessions begin with research, emerging trends, and real world examples from national thought leaders and local practitioners, followed by facilitated working sessions designed to collectively identify practical strategies for actionable next steps.

Mainstage Conversations 

State of the Nonprofit Sector

The nonprofit sector is navigating a period of significant change. This mainstage conversation will bring together national perspectives, data, and innovative ideas to explore what’s changing across the sector, what it means for nonprofits and the communities they serve, and how organizations can adapt and think differently about what comes next.

Co-Creating the Future of Our Region

Southern Nevada is growing and changing quickly. This conversation will explore where the region is headed, how growth is shaping infrastructure, the economy, and our communities, and what these changes mean for the nonprofit sector. Regional leaders will share their perspectives on the opportunities and challenges ahead, where nonprofits fit within the broader ecosystem, and how nonprofits and their partners can work together to help build a stronger region for the future.

A strong nonprofit workforce is essential to delivering lasting community impact, yet attracting, retaining, and developing talent remains one of the sector's greatest challenges. Organizations continue to face workforce shortages, burnout, and limited opportunities for professional growth, making it difficult to attract, retain, and develop the talent needed to meet growing community needs.

OPPORTUNITY: A more prepared, resilient nonprofit workforce is essential to meet the challenges facing Southern Nevada today and in the future. We can and must build a nonprofit sector where people can grow, advance, and lead -- through investment in people, their well-being, their growth pathways, and their potential as our future leaders.

National research from industry leaders like the Independent Sector, Nonprofit Finance Fund, and the Urban Institute, consistently identifies workforce, leadership, and organizational capacity as critical priorities for the sector.

People Track: Breakout Sessions

Worker Well-Being: Supporting the People Behind the Mission

Nonprofit work depends on the people behind the mission, yet organizations continue to face challenges around burnout, compensation, benefits, retention, and creating workplaces where people can thrive. This session will explore what worker well-being looks like today, what organizations and funders can do differently, and how we can create stronger, more sustainable workplaces for the people doing the work.

Building Talent From Within: Creating Pathways for Growth

Nonprofits are competing for talent while also working to retain and grow the people already on their teams. This session will explore how organizations can identify and develop talent from within, create meaningful pathways for professional growth, and support emerging leaders. The conversation will focus on practical ways nonprofits can rethink talent development and create stronger opportunities for people to grow within the sector.

As funding landscape shifts, so should our strategy. By building stronger partnerships with government and philanthropy, reimagining revenue models, and attracting sustainable and scalable investments, Southern Nevada's nonprofits can emerge stronger, more resilient, and more impactful than we've ever been.

OPPORTUNITY: Southern Nevada has an opportunity to strengthen its nonprofit sector by better understanding the changing landscape of public and private funding. By building stronger partnerships with government and philanthropy, diversifying revenue streams, and attracting the right investments to sustain and scale their work, nonprofits can increase their long-term resilience and community impact.

National research from the Nonprofit Finance Fund, and the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy highlights these shifts and the growing need for long term financial sustainability.

Money Track: Breakout Sessions

Public Funding in a Changing Landscape

Government funding plays a critical role in supporting nonprofit work, but changes in public funding are creating new challenges and uncertainty for organizations. This session will explore what’s changing, how shifts in federal, state, and local funding are affecting nonprofits, and what organizations can do to navigate uncertainty and build stronger public-sector partnerships.

Private Money: Understanding the Shifts and Doing Philanthropy Differently

Philanthropy is changing, from how people give to who gets to participate in giving. This session will explore shifts in charitable giving, the growing concentration of philanthropic dollars, and new approaches that invite communities to play a more active role. Participants will consider what these changes mean for nonprofits and how organizations can rethink fundraising and engage people through money, time, voice, and networks.

Southern Nevada is home to more than 2.3 million residents across a vast and diverse region, and people's experiences and realities can vary dramatically from one neighborhood and zipcode to the next. Creating communities where all people can thrive requires a long-term, place-based approach that aligns nonprofits, government, philanthropy, businesses, and residents around a shared vision.

OPPORTUNITY: Southern Nevada's size and diversity demands that we organize around place, instead of just mission and interests -- an emerging approach here that has achieved impact in other communities. By shifting our framework to neighborhoods and zipcode, we can better mobilize our communities to build shared visions and act on them. Through community asset mapping, flexible, responsive programming, bold, committed partnerships -- and most of all, through working with local residents -- we can create lasting, sustainable transformation block by block.

Research from the leading industry partners like Brookings Institution, Urban Institute, and NationSwell demonstrates that place-based strategies can strengthen neighborhoods by coordinating investments, fostering cross-sector collaboration, and centering community voice.

Place Track: Breakout Sessions

Place: Why Place Matters and What We Can Do About It

This session will introduce the fundamentals of place-based work and how local government planners think about neighborhoods, communities, resources, and access to opportunity. It will also explore what this lens can mean for nonprofits and how organizations might think differently about where they work, who they serve, and how they collaborate with others in the same communities.